Chris J Reed – LinkedIn Marketing Lesson: Bounce Your Idea Off Other Entrepreneurs

<p><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/b2bsocialmarketing/"><strong>Chris J Reed</strong></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">loves to share his uncensored, polarizing, and authentic thoughts on a variety of business topics on</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/b2bsocialmarketing/detail/recent-activity/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">LinkedIn</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and for Forbes, where he is an</span> <a href= "https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/#2ad0a19f1938"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Official Forbes Business Council Member</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">. He is a quadruple international best-selling author on the subjects of LinkedIn, Personal Branding, and Social Selling, and he is infamously known as “The Only CEO With A Mohawk,” recognized globally by his notorious pink mohawk!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>“You gotta have some kind of elevator pitch or icebreaker on LinkedIn, just like in real life.”</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris J Reed</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <h2><strong>Worst investment ever</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Replicating success</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris created</span> <a href= "https://www.blackmarketing.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Black Marketing</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">,</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">which became an instant success. With this successful experience, he believed that he could do it again, so he started another marketing company. However, it wasn’t as successful, but luckily he was able to sell it off after a couple of years.</span></p> <h3><strong>Believing in his hype</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After selling his second company and making money off it, Chris had it over his head that he could start a third company. He created another company, The Dark Art of Marketing, that was linked to LinkedIn marketing focusing on PR.</